highway_cams

Find the Ministry of Transportation and Transit's highway web cameras from the DriveBC HighwayCams list: by highway (1, 99, 7B), by words in the camera name or caption (Coquihalla, Kicking Horse), by region, by camera id, or by distance from a point. Returns the camera's name, highway, caption, region, the compass direction it faces, position, elevation, the ministry's note, and a link to its DriveBC page. Locations and attributes only: no images, and nothing says whether a camera is working or what it shows now. Open page_url for the current picture.

Cost: 1 unit of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• query (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• highway (string, optional): min length 1, max length 30
• region (Lower Mainland, Southern Interior, Vancouver Island, Northern, Border Cams, optional)
• id (integer, optional): min 1, max 999999
• lat (number, optional): min 47.5, max 61
• lon (number, optional): min -140, max -113
• radius_km (number, optional): min 0.5, max 200
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 50, default 20

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/highway_cams \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool highway_cams with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"highway_cams","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.